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Thousands of GitHub repositories distribute Trojan malware by cloning legitimate projects and adding malicious links.
Commenters confirmed similar discoveries and noted slow or inconsistent GitHub responses.
Swiss parliament votes 100-98 to lift the ban on building new nuclear power plants.
Two camps form: nuclear economics vs. grid reliability, with a split on whether renewables plus storage can fully replace baseload.
New Outlook takes 10 seconds to show an email from a notification vs. instantly in Classic.
Commenters blame web app slop and forced migration for new Outlook's sluggishness versus Classic.
DeepSeek's chat interface now supports vision, allowing image understanding.
Vision is live on chat but not in API; users report Chinese replies.
Local models like Qwen are a different tool from frontier AIs, not a cheaper replacement.
Consensus: local models are useful but not drop-in replacements; hardware cost and power draw are real.
Git offers three levels of ignore files: project, local repo, and global.
A split between adding common ignores to project .gitignore vs. using global excludes.
Emacs 31 ships tree-sitter auto-install, markdown-ts-mode, and editable xref buffers.
Users welcome the features and cite tree-sitter as a project revitalizer, though learning curve remains a barrier.
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Two camps: those who see silent removal as unacceptable, and those who see it as justified market segmentation for a niche feature.
A GDPR complaint over forced consent for marketing cost Elkjop €1.8 million after five years.
Praise for the outcome and EU privacy laws, with notes on similar experiences and US equivalents.
A curated directory lists 50+ sites to submit websites for backlinks, traffic, and SEO.
Nostalgia for 90s submission services and skepticism about SEO benefits of directory listings.
A Show HN tool checks if your name appears in the training data of 12 AI models.
Users report frequent hallucinated personas; creator notes classifier favors recall over precision.
Cornell's CS 6120 advanced compilers course is freely available online with video lectures and assignments.
Debate over whether trace compilation is a dead end, with LuaJIT cited as a counterexample.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has donated over $500 million to charity, criticizing wealthy peers who attack philanthropy.
Support for Newmark's modesty, but debate over whether billionaires' philanthropy can offset systemic inequality.
Ubiquiti's ENAS is an enterprise NAS with ZFS, aiming for no license fees.
Praise for no license fees; debate over Ubiquiti's long-term commitment to the model.
Universities and hospitals repurpose generic drugs at up to 90% lower cost.
Off-label prescribing is routine and insured; commercial approval remains a high-cost hurdle.
Modos crowdfunds Modos Flow, a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with a 60 Hz refresh rate.
Enthusiasm for specs is tempered by USI stylus critique and the high price for a niche product.
Project Valhalla's value classes preview in JDK 28 after a decade of work.
Split on Java vs. .NET value type design and Oracle's stewardship.
W Social, a closed-source for-profit fork of Bluesky, has attracted European Commission accounts, raising sovereignty concerns.
Consensus: W Social is a shady, for-profit venture, not a true sovereign alternative to X.
SteamOS 3.8 stable release lands with KDE 6.4.3, Wayland, and third-party handheld support.
Excitement over Wayland in Desktop Mode, but warnings that SteamOS is not a general-purpose distro and lacks NVIDIA support.
Windows 2000's UI offered clear, consistent visual clues that modern interfaces lack.
Strong consensus that Windows 2000 achieved peak UI consistency now lost to flat design